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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

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Light in August

by William Faulkner

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

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Nicholas’s Quotes

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: alcoholism, humor, liquor

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“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: imagination

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“For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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“For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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